Landscape
and memory have always played a central part in the music of Joe Corrales Jr.
aka Yppah (pronounced “yippah”). His third album for Ninja Tune reflects a change in the landscape around him.

Midway through the process of recording Eighty One,
Corrales started making regular trips to Galveston, on the Texas Gulf coast, to
surf. So energised was he by his experiences, he left his home in Texas and
moved to Long Beach, California. Unsurprisingly then, he says that the images
he had in his head as he made his new music were of the sea and the beach. “I wanted a lot of the songs to feel like a warm wash,” he
explains.

The final piece in
this act of reinvention is the presence of Anomie Belle, a
singer, producer and classically trained violinist based in Seattle. The pair
met when Yppah was touring with Bonobo in 2010. She
offered to listen through to demos of Eighty One to see if she could find a
track which she could add something to. In the words of Yppah, “it was such a
natural fit she ended up doing four!”

Beautiful,
uplifting and imbued with a natural,
unaffected warmth that cuts through the most biting cold, Eighty One is
Yppah’s most satisfying work yet. Buy now at the Ninjashop and iTunes, and watch the video for single "Film Burn" below.